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Remixing Moby Dick: Media Studies Meets the Great White Whale

Remixing Moby Dick: Media Studies Meets the Great White Whale

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library


Remixing Moby Dick: Media Studies Meets the Great White Whale

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

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Length:
82 minutes
Released:
Sep 26, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Over a multi-year collaboration, playwright and director Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Melville scholar Wyn Kelley, and media expert Henry Jenkins have developed a new approach for teaching Moby-Dick in the age of YouTube and hip-hop. They will explore how "learning through remixing" can speak to contemporary youth, why Melville might be understood as the master mash-up artist of the 19th century, and what might have happened if Captain Ahab had been a 21st century gang leader.* Part of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Public Library’s month-long citywide initiative "What Ever Happened to Moby Dick?"*Click here to see photos from the program!
Released:
Sep 26, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

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ALOUD is the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' award-winning literary series of live conversations, readings and performances at the historic Central Library and locations throughout Los Angeles.